Yvette Vickers
Everett
Yvette Vickers, ca. early 1960s.
Vickers was an actress, singer and one-time Playboy centerfold. Her film appearances were mostly inconsequential–an uncredited part in Sunset Boulevard and a supporting role in Attack of the 50-Foot Woman were among her movie credits. But Vickers’ eerie death eclipses her semi-prominent career.
Vickers’ mummified body was found inside her Los Angeles home on April 27, 2011 after a neighbor became concerned after noticing a large pile of yellowing mail in her mailbox as well as spider webs across her front door. Authorities indicated that her mummified body suggested Vickers could have been dead for nearly a year; the exact date of her death is unknown. The Los Angeles County coroner’s department confirmed that Vickers had died from heart failure. The 82-year-old was known to be reclusive and had not been seen in public for some time before her passing.
Next: Anneka Di Lorenzo
Anneka Di Lorenzo
AP
Anneka di Lorenzo, April 1980.
Di Lorezno, a 58-year-old former model and B-list actress, once aspired to be known as “the sexiest woman in the world.” The actress was also Penthouse magazine’s “Pet Of The Year” for 1975-76, though she experienced mental health problems and paranoia following her film career. Yet nothing could have predicted her perplexing death.
A body later identified as Di Lorezno’s washed up on the shore of Camp Pendleton, a Marine Corps base north of San Diego in January. Her corpse was reportedly so slim and youthful-looking that investigators initially assumed she was a teenager. The remains displayed signs of a broken neck and back, which left clues to what caused her otherwise-inconclusive death.
“The main unanswered question that we have is how she got from her vehicle to the water,” Navy special agent Rachel McGranaghan told the San Diego Union-Tribune after details emerged that Di Lorenzo had parked her car at a vista overlooking the ocean shortly before she died. “We know her life ended in the water, in some circumstance, we just don’t know how.”
